Those Who Know Don't Say
Subtitle: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781469653822
Description: "Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this ... political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state. The book examines efforts to build broad-based grassroots coalitions among liberals, radicals, and nationalists to oppose the carceral state and struggle for local Black self-determination. It captures the ambiguous place of the Nation of Islam specifically, and Black nationalist organizing more broadly, during an era which has come to be defined by nonviolent resistance, desegregation campaigns, and racial liberalism"--